“Yes.” Bai Yunyi nodded and soon added, “But that’s all in the past now.”

  Gu Bailu asked casually, “Are you sure it’s in the past?”

  “The fact that I love you means that I’m done with her. I wouldn’t have fallen for anyone else if I wasn’t over her.”

  “Why are you over her now?” Gu Bailu asked curiously.

  Bai Yunyi frowned slightly. “Can we talk about something else?”

  “But I really want to know. Mr. Bai, if you want to win my heart, you must show me your sincerity.” Gu Bailu certainly would never let go of such a chance.

  “She hurt me.”

  “Who is she?” Gu Bailu really wanted to know who was the person that this man, whom Gu Yunjing and Feng Qingtian were both worried about, had loved before.

  For some reason, she subconsciously thought that it might be herself.

  Even Gu Yunjing had mentioned that the deities had liked her back when she was at Heavenly Palace Cliff.

  “Yan Anchun, the current Princess Zi,” replied Bai Yunyi.

  Gu Bailu’s heart grew heavy. Was that really true?

  “Did you know her in the past?”

  “She was my love a long time ago.”

  Gu Bailu was lost for words.

  What?

  If Yan Anchun was his love, then where did Feng Qingtian come in? Had she cheated on Bai Yunyi by sleeping with Feng Qingtian?

  It all seemed too dramatic.

  Gu Bailu didn’t want to be part of it.

  “Then how did she end up with Prince Zi?” asked Gu Bailu in shock.

  “It was a long time ago…… You might not understand.”

  “Just tell me. I’ll just consider it a story. I’m very curious.”

  “If you’re interested, I’ll tell you.” Bai Yunyi crossed his hands on the table, sorrow in his eyes. “At Heavenly Palace Cliff, I used to be the deity with mastery over the weather. By the order of Heavenly Palace Cliff, I unleashed a huge flood on mankind and nearly drowned the land.

  “Mankind didn’t want to be destroyed, so a priest who could communicate with Heavenly Palace Cliff offered up a five-year-old girl as a sacrifice.

  “The girl was very cute. Her beautiful eyes made me want to give her all the best things.

  “I accepted the sacrifice but was unwilling to kill the girl, and so violated the Heavenly Emperor’s order. Mankind survived the cataclysm, and I was punished with imprisonment for hundreds of years. During those centuries, that girl grew up bold and beautiful. She trained with me and cultivated excellent divine arts.

  “I fell in love with her. I knew that a deity shouldn’t, but I couldn’t control myself; my heart changed in her company. She was nice to me and helped me through my lonely punishment.

  “I thought that we would live happily ever after in the tower where I was imprisoned. However, Heavenly Palace Cliff pardoned me not long after that, and I was released. Once we were out, she had a great time at Heavenly Palace Cliff. Because she was delightful and adorable, all the deities liked her, which made her even more audacious. Later, she pissed off the Heavenly Emperor, who locked her up in his temple. By the time the Heavenly Emperor set her free, she told me that she had fallen in love with the Heavenly Emperor and wanted to be with him.”


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  “Do you know what it feels like for the treasure that you’ve always cherished to suddenly fall in love with someone else? It was devastating.”

  Gu Bailu was dumbfounded. Exactly what was that about?

  So who was the Heavenly Emperor? Did she fall in love with the Heavenly Emperor?

  “But the Heavenly Emperor is the master of Heavenly Palace Cliff who rules everything. My objection was pointless……”

  “So that’s how she hurt you?”

  Then it was quite smart of you to give up on her.

  “I didn’t hate her after she hurt me. I still loved her, and I told her that. She was quite shocked. Perhaps because of our history, she didn’t turn me down harshly. But soon enough, the Heavenly Emperor declared that she was his only soulmate.”

  Gu Bailu sweated hard. “Perhaps she didn’t turn you down because she didn’t want to break your heart…… Do you think she chose power over you?”

  “No…… I was upset, but I still worshiped her. I was willing to do anything she wanted, even violate an order from the Heavenly Emperor……”

  “Then why do you say that she hurt you?”

  “She and the Heavenly Emperor were happy for a couple of decades. The Heavenly Emperor had a dispassionate temperament, but he adored her. Later, however, there was chaos in the human world, and people were fighting each other. It was the will of the heavens that mankind be purged.

  “The will of the heavens was received by the Heavenly Emperor, who immediately gave me an order to carry out. After she learned of it, she came to me and begged me not to do it, declaring that every person down there was a living soul.

  “I told her that it was an order from the Heavenly Emperor and I couldn’t disobey it. Because of that, she had a huge quarrel with the Heavenly Emperor. Unable to persuade the Heavenly Emperor, she begged me again. I couldn’t see her in pain, so I violated another order.”

  Gu Bailu’s heart jumped. She didn’t know that Bai Yunyi had done so much for her.

  How would he be punished after violating another order?

  “What then? What happened to you after you violated the order? Is that why you’re in the human world now?”

  “I was thrown into the Fire of Hell and suffered infinite pain while missing her. But she never once visited me. I would’ve been happy and satisfied as long as she came to see me even once, but she didn’t. She and the Heavenly Emperor made peace with each other. They were just as in love as before.”

  Gu Bailu subconsciously wanted to shout, That’s not true! That’s not true at all!

  How could she have loved the Heavenly Emperor as much as before? Feng Qingtian told her that she killed the Heavenly Emperor.

  “Maybe there was a reason why she never visited you. Who told you that she and the Heavenly Emperor were still deeply in love?”

  “Nobody needed to tell me. Everybody at Heavenly Palace Cliff knew; even that person in the Fire of Hell knew.”

  Gu Bailu frowned slightly. Why didn’t Bai Yunyi know that she killed the Heavenly Emperor? Where was he back then?

  “Were you imprisoned in the Fire of Hell the whole time?”


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  “How could I have remained imprisoned in the Fire of Hell? My soul was burnt up in the Fire of Hell, but I was secretly rescued by a few friends. By the time my soul was reassembled, she had been reincarnated in the human world for a crime she committed.”

  “What crime?” asked Gu Bailu earnestly.

  “She murdered the Heavenly Emperor.”

  So, she did kill the Heavenly Emperor. Feng Qingtian wasn’t lying.

  “Didn’t you say that she and the Heavenly Emperor were in love? Why did she kill the Heavenly Emperor?”

  “I don’t know. The details have already been erased, because it was the most humiliating thing in Heavenly Palace Cliff.”

  The Heavenly Emperor was killed by a human being.

  That was a huge slap in the face to Heavenly Palace Cliff.

  “After the new Heavenly Emperor was crowned, everything was over, but her retribution lingered.”

  “What’s the reason for her retribution?”

  “Murdering the Heavenly Emperor was an intolerable crime. Her soul was kept intact only because many deities offered up their godhood. Like I said, they all liked her…… Even so, it wasn’t easy for the heavens to forgive her……”

  “So, she has continued to be punished by the heavens?”

  That was rather unsettling. If she had been spared years ago, why couldn’t they let her live in peace?

  “There are many complicated reasons. It’s not the will of the heavens, but…… Heavenly Palace Cliff doesn’t want her or the Heavenly Emperor to go back, so she has to die.”

  Gu Bailu was stunned. “Wait…… What do you mean by her and the Heavenly Emperor? How can she go back? Also, isn’t the Heavenly Emperor dead?”

  Bai Yunyi rubbed his face and said, “If she can be reincarnated after her death, the Heavenly Emperor certainly can as well.”

  “Are you implying that the Heavenly Emperor is Prince Zi? Otherwise why would she be together with Prince Zi?” asked Gu Bailu carefully.

  Bai Yunyi shook her head. “I can’t tell you that. However…… do you believe the things I said?”

  Gu Bailu scoffed. “Of course not. That’s just a story you made up. You’re not sincere at all.”

  “However, even if she can’t be with Prince Zi, I will never allow Prince Zi to lay hands on you anymore,” Bai Yunyi suddenly said solemnly.

  Gu Bailu smiled at him. “Enough nonsense! Don’t tell this to anyone else, or they’ll laugh at you.”

  “Yes. It’s all past absurdities.” Bai Yunyi didn’t know why he wanted to tell Gu Bailu everything about the past when she asked him.

  He thought that he was being so frank because he was deeply in love with Gu Bailu.

  Little did he know that it was actually because of the tea.

  Gu Bailu said in amusement, “You love Princess Zi so much?”

  “Like I said, it’s all in the past. I don’t love her anymore.”

  He missed her when he was being tortured in the Fire of Hell, but she turned out to be so cold. He was already tired.

  He loved her for hundreds of years and did so many things for her, but she never visited him once.

  Also, it was probably a result of his soul being reassembled, but he had less feelings for Yan Anchun now.

  “Actually…… Did it ever occur to you that maybe she killed the Heavenly Emperor to avenge you?” When Gu Bailu saw Bai Yunyi off, she suddenly said the words.